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Fri 02 Feb 2010Party loyalty and political survival put before ethics
OPINION:The most damaging aspect of the O’Dea affair is the evident loss of a sense of what is right and what is not in politics writes, EUGENE REGAN
THOMAS MACAULAY once wrote that the measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out. Well, over the last number of days we have seen Willie O’Dea’s real character laid bare. And for that matter Brian Cowen’s and John Gormley’s. But more on them a little later.
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